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  • Contributors

Kirstie Blair is a Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow. She has published a number of articles on Victorian poetry and is the author of Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (OUP, 2006). She also recently edited a collection of essays on John Keble, John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004), and is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Literature and Theology and the Blackwell Companion to Literature and the Bible (both forthcoming).

Diane D'Amico is Professor of English at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time. She is also the author of numerous articles on Rossetti, some of which have been published in VP, VN, and JPRS. Her most recent essay, “‘From Sunset to Star Rise’: Christina Rossetti's Winter Sonnet” will be appearing in Fourteen English Sonnets: Critical Essays, to be published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (summer of 2006) and edited by Michael Hanke.

Duc Dau was recently awarded a doctorate from the University of Western Australia for a thesis on Hopkins, love, and God. She has published articles on Hopkins and Seamus Heaney, and her current research is on the Song of Songs in Victorian literature and culture. She teaches at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, an Emerita Professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity and, with Albert Gelpi, the editor of Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose. Her present research focus is Victorian medievalism.

F. Elizabeth Gray teaches Victorian literature and helps administer the writing program at Massey University, New Zealand. She has previously published articles on nineteenth-century women's verse in VP and Christianity and Literature, and has articles in press with ELT and the Australasian Victorian Studies Journal. She is currently working on a book on Victorian women's devotional verse, tentatively entitled “Transfigurations: Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry.”

Peter Groves is Chaplain and Fellow of Brasenose College, and Priest-in- Charge of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford. He is a teaching member of the Theology Faculty in the University of Oxford, and has published articles on doctrinal theology and the philosophy of religion, as well as on the Oxford Movement and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in a number of books and journals.

Elisabeth Jay is Director of the Institute of Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes Uiversity where she is also Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and a Professor of English. Her published work includes a literary biography of Margaret Oliphant; various editions of biographies, autobiographies, and novels by Victorian women writers; and a series of books on nineteenth-century literature and religion.

David A. Kent teaches at Centennial College, Toronto. He has edited The Achievement of Christina Rossetti (1987) and co-edited (with P.G. Stanwood) Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti. His most recent publication is Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone (2003), co-edited with D. R. Ewen

Emma Mason is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her books include Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century and Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction. She is writing a book on Wordsworth.

G. B. Tennyson is Emeritus Professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of numerous works on Victorian literature, most notably in the current context Victorian Devotional Poetry: The Tractarian Mode (1981). He is the editor of Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis (1989) and A Barfield Reader (1999) and is currently working on editing some unpublished Barfield materials and preparing a collection of his own essays on Barfield and the Inklings.

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